Yorihisa Matsuno

Yorihisa Matsuno

Yorihisa Matsuno ( Japanese 松 野 頼 久 , Matsuno Yorihisa ; * September 19, 1960 ) is a Japanese politician ( New Japan Party → New Progress Party → From Five → Democratic Party → Nippon Ishin no Kai → Ishin no Tō → Democratic Progressive Party → Party of hope ) and was a member of the national parliament ( House of Representatives , constituency 1 of Kumamoto prefecture or the Kyūshū proportional representation block ) from 2000 to 2017 . From 2015 to 2016 he was party chairman of Ishin no Tō.

Matsuno, the son of LDP Defense and Labor Minister Raizō Matsuno (House of Representatives, Kumamoto ) and grandson of Railway Minister Tsuruhei Matsuno ( Seiyūkai , House of Representatives, Kumamoto, after the war LPJ → LDP Senator from Kumamoto), studied at the Keiō Faculty of Law -University , where he graduated in Political Science in 1987. In 1990 his father was voted out of office in the House of Representatives election. In 1993 , ex-governor Morihiro Hosokawa won a seat in the same constituency after his New Japan Party had questioned the LDP's monopoly on conservative electoral success across the country. After the electoral reform, Hosokawa successfully took over the new single-mandate constituency Kumamoto 1. And when he, now a Democrat, resigned in 1998, Yorihisa Matsuno was to be his successor in the by-election, but was defeated by the Liberal Democrat Eiichi Iwashita . It was not until the general election in 2000 that he was able to win the seat and then defend it three times in a row. In 2009, after the Democrats came to power, he became Deputy Head of Cabinet Secretariat for the Hatoyama cabinet . In the intra-party power struggle after Hatoyama's resignation and the loss of the Senate majority in 2010, Matsuno Ichirō supported Ozawa against Naoto Kan .

In 2012 Matsuno left the Democratic Party and helped found the Nippon Ishin no Kai . For this he lost the constituency of Kumamoto 1 to Minoru Kihara in the election in December 2012 , but won - before all other double candidates alone on the first list place - a seat in the election in the Kyūshū block. In 2014 he joined the Ishin no Tō, which placed him in the 2014 election no longer preferred in the election in the block and Matsuno shared first place with the other double candidates, but still led the Ishin list with a narrow defeat in the constituency and was certainly re-elected. After the resignation of the party founders Tōru Hashimoto and Ichirō Matsui from the party leadership, he became general secretary under Kenji Eda . When Eda resigned in May 2015 after the failed referendum on the abolition of the city of Osaka - the to plan, the conversion of the prefecture capital into special districts of Osaka prefecture similar to Tokyo, which Hashimoto was aiming for, was one of the party's central goals - Matsuno became Eda's successor. Under his leadership, the question of closer cooperation with the other major opposition parties on the occasion of the mayoral election in the city of Yamagata led to a final break with the delegates from Osaka around Hashimoto and Matsui; they left the Ishin no Tō in autumn 2015, which lost its position as the second largest opposition party to the communists. Then he led the party in the [for the former democrats in the Ishin no Tō: re-] amalgamation with the Democratic Party to the Minshintō ("Democratic Progressive Party", English for a few days provisionally "Democratic Inovation Party", then "Democratic Party") . There he was initially without a position on the party executive; In 2017 he took over the chairmanship of the Committee for Parliamentary Affairs under Seiji Maehara .

For the 2017 House of Representatives election , Matsuno joined the Kibō no Tō . For this he was subject to Minoru Kihara (56%) with 44% of the votes and reached with this constituency result only ninth place on the Kibō list in the proportional representation in Kyūshū, in which the party won only four seats.

Web links

• Website (japanese)
• House of Representatives, Members: Matsuno Yorihisa (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Yomiuri Shimbun , Shūgiin 2017 election results, Kumamoto majority election and Kyūshū proportional representation